Without ... The Creative Imagination Rushing In

The Heart Of The Matter, As I See It, Is The Stark Fact That World Poverty Is Primarily A Problem Of Two Million Villages, And Thus A Problem Of Two Thousand Million Villagers.

The Generosity Of The Earth Allows Us To Feed All Mankind; We Know Enough About Ecology To Keep The Earth A Healthy Place; There Is Enough Room On The Earth, And There Are Enough Materials, So That Everybody Can Have Adequate Shelter; We Are Quite Competent Enough To Produce Sufficient Supplies Of Necessities So That No One Need Live In Misery.

There Is No Economic Problem And, In A Sense, There Never Has Been.

The Most Striking About Modern Industry Is That It Requires So Much And Accomplishes So Little. Modern Industry Seems To Be Inefficient To A Degree That Surpasses One's Ordinary Powers Of Imagination. Its Inefficiency Therefore Remains Unnoticed.

The Richer A Society, The More Impossible It Becomes To Do Worthwhile Things Without Immediate Pay-off.